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Rapport
Fifth progress report April 2019 – March 2020 : food and nutrition security / sustainable agriculture
This fifth progress report provides an update on achievements with respect to the European Union’s (EU) two ambitious commitments on nutrition: to support partner countries to reduce the number of stunted children under the age of five by at least 7 million by 2025; and to allocate EUR 3.5 billion...
European Union
2020 - Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development (European Commission) Now known as... Directorate-General for International Partnerships (European Commission)
Article de revue spécialisée
Timor-Leste: Strong Women, Strong Nation
Innovative research in the Southeast Asian island nation of Timor-Leste has obtained data to help close the gender gap and provide food security for the local community. In October 2018, Leocaldia de Araujo, a fisherwoman from a village of 300 people at the northern tip of Timor-Leste’s Atauro Island, stepped quietly...
Timor-Leste
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Article de blog
Could coronavirus be a food insecurity issue?
Governments all over the world are educating people on how they can avoid COVID-19 by staying home, when at the same time, millions of people such as low-income seniors, smallholders and family farmers, cannot afford staying away from the “field” for even one day.
“Leave work. Order groceries for as long as you can. Stay home and be patient until the crises pass.” Governments all over the world are educating people on how they can avoid COVID-19 by following these simple steps (along with hand washing combined to a considerable amount of sanitizer), when...
2020 - Food Security Center
Rapport
Bio-écoles en Inde du Sud
Ce livret pédagogique est le fruit des enseignements d’un projet mené pendant 5 ans, entre 2013 et 2018, avec 50 écoles primaires du bloc de Marakanam, dans l’état du Tamil Nadu en Inde du Sud : le projet Bio-écoles mené par SOL en partenariat avec Solidarité India. Ce projet est...
India
2020 - SOL, Alternatives Agroécologiques et Solidaires
Rapport
Agriculture and rural development
The common agricultural policy ensures a stable food supply, produced in a sustainable way at affordable prices for the EU’s 446 million consumers. It also supports jobs and growth in rural areas.
European Union
2020 - Directorate-General for Communication (European Commission)
Manuel
Comparing crises: Great Lockdown versus Great Recession
A comparison of the Great Lockdown of 2020 underway with the Great Recession of 2009, reveals some regularities, yet many differences. Notably, the shock associated with the Great Recession arose out of economy-wide stress, particularly high-income countries, while in direct contrast, the Great Lockdown was borne outside of the global...
2020 - Comparing crises: Great Lockdown versus Great Recession
Article de blog
Realidades y retos de la alimentación orgánica
La comida orgánica ha cobrado importancia en los últimos años, ante la demanda creciente de un grupo consumidor informado y conciente sobre sus derechos, la procedencia, contenidos y procesos de producción de sus alimentos, así como sus efectos para la salud, el medioambiente y la tierra.
Las prácticas orgánicas contribuyen a combatir el cambio climático, pues secuestran el carbono del aire y lo regresan a la tierra, donde pertenece. Con ello, aparte de fertilizar la tierra, permite mantener la humedad y la biodiversidad.
Mexico
2020 - Vía Orgánica
Pratiques
Commercial scale community bamboo harvesting
Traditional vegetation based bamboo production of four villages of Meung districts in Lao PDR, are being shifted to industrial processing oriented bamboo production. This is being done with the technical and operational support from ForInfo, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland. The project allowed for improved management practices, participatory decision...
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Article du bulletin d’information
India: Left in the lurch
The Guhagar fishing village lies in the Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra state in India. It has about 450 fisher families. Earlier, the regular routine for the fisherwomen of the village centred around visiting the beach and fish landing sites early in the morning to gather and buy fish that they...
India
2020 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Ouvrage
Strengthening Seed Systems
Promoting Community Based Seed Systems for Biodiversity Conservation and Food & Nutrition Security in South Asia
This book is an output of a regional experts’ consultation program on “Partnership to Strengthen Community Based Seed Systems in South Asia”, organized by the SAARC Agriculture Center (SAC), Dhaka; the Asian Farmers Association (AFA), the Philippines; and the Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC), Pakistan during 7-9 November 2019, Islamabad,...
2020 - Asian Farmers’ Association (AFA)
Article de revue spécialisée
Uso de las herramientas de la agricultura de precisión para generar mejoras de la productividad
Una experiencia sobre el uso de los mapas de rendimiento
La agricultura de precisión es un tema en debate. ¿es posible para la agricultura familiar? ¿ Para qué tipo de agricultura familiar?. En este artículo, es un ensayo a campo que aporta elementos de análisis.El cambio de milenio trajo una batería de herramientas digitales bajo un concepto muy amplio denominado...
Argentina
2020 - Universidad Nacional de Rosario/ Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias
Article de revue spécialisée
India / Fishmeal: A Twisted Trajectory
The fish-processing industry’s path of using fishmeal to grow shrimp amounts to exporting the precious nutrition that India’s children badly need. In the early morning of 25 September 2019, on the shores of Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu, India, the humble sardine commenced its journey. The journey of its afterlife, that is. A...
India
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Pratiques
Aerobic rice
Aerobic rice is a production system in which rice is grown under non-flooded, non-puddled, and non-saturated soil conditions. Because aerobic rice needs less water at the field level than conventional lowland rice, the system is targeted at relatively water-short irrigated or rain-fed lowland environments. Irrigation can be applied through flash-flooding,...
Philippines
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Article du bulletin d’information
Central America/Costa Rica: Critical routes
Women fishers, shrimp peelers and mollusk workers in Costa Rica identify priority areas for the recognition and formalisation of their work. Costa Rica is a country with great marine biodiversity and has an important cultural heritage in its coastal marine areas. However, recognition and opportunities for decent work for the country’s...
Costa Rica
2020 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Vidéos
Políticas Públicas y Agroecología en la Agricultura Familiar
La reunión regional debe poner énfasis en las mejores prácticas existentes en la región desde las políticas hasta la implementación de programas, así como sobre los desafíos y estrategias, en colaboración con los actores clave de la agroecología. El evento pretende contribuir en el fortalecimiento de la agroecología a nivel...
2020 - REAFmercosur
Article de revue spécialisée
Nutrition: Fish as Food
The international democratic process has come a long way in realizing the role of fish in the right to food and nutrition–and yet, a map of the road ahead needs to be laid out. Even though the last century has seen great socioeconomic advances and improvement in human well-being worldwide, much...
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Directives
COVID-19 and Food Safety: Guidance for food businesses: Interim guidance
The world is facing an unprecedented threat from the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Many countries are introducing physical distancing measures as one of the ways in which transmission of the disease can be reduced. The purpose of these guidelines is to highlight additional measures so that the...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Pratiques
Rice farming: saving water through Alternate Wetting Drying (AWD) method
Alternate wetting and drying (AWD) is a water-saving technology that lowland (paddy) rice farmers can apply to reduce their water use in irrigated fields. In AWD, irrigation water is applied to flood the field a certain number of days after the disappearance of ponded water. Hence, the field is alternately...
Indonesia
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Article du bulletin d’information
What’s New, Webby? : A new gender initiative
The Gender Climate Tracker (GCT) mobile app and online platform provides experts, practitioners, decision-makers, negotiators, and advocates with easy, on-the-go access to the latest and regularly updated information on policies, mandates, research, decisions, and actions related to gender and climate change.
2020 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Site web
Agroecology Criteria Tool
The Agroecology Criteria Tool (ACT) enables the assessment of a project through the lens of agroecology: it visualizes the degree to which a project, program or policy is aligned with the various dimensions of agroecology. The methodology is based on the analytical framework by Gliessman on the 5 levels of food...
2020 - Biovision
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